I have been having good results in my previous Blogs. In my previous Blog, I looked at ThruLines from John Hartley and Anne Bracewell through their daughter Nancy. She had 10 children, so potentially, a lot of descendants. In this Blog, I will look at more Nancy Hartley ThruLines through my father’s cousin, Joyce.
Joyce is a good choice because she is a generation earlier than me and should have twice as much Hartley DNA compared to me:
Here is the Hartley/Bracewell DNA/Genealogy Tree I have so far:
Here are Joyce’s ThruLines through Nancy Hartley:
Laura’s tree ends in Jesse Howorth:
It turns out that I already have a tree for Laura:
However, I had stopped the tree at Eliza Lee. This tree was made back in 2018 before I knew about Joyce’s ThruLines apparently.
Joyce and Laura
This line should be easy as I already mentioned Eliza in my previous Blog. She identifies her father-in-law in the 1851 Census:
I’m feeling good about Nancy’s 11 children, so I added them to my Ancestry Tree:
So here, John has Eliza who has Jesse. It appears that Laura’s tree checks out.
Adding Laura to My Hartley Tree
Laura adds another piece to the puzzle. Obviously, a lot is riding on the fact that Thomas Lee’s wife Nancy was Nancy Hartley the daughter of John Hartley and Anne Bracewell.
Joyce and Robin
Here Ann Lee shows in white on Robin’s side. This is probably because I just added Ann to my tree. I get this hint in my tree for Ann:
Robin has an extensive tree which I will assume to be accurate at this point. Here is her maternal side:
I will add Robin to my Hartley/Bracewell Tree:
Unfortunately, I don’t show Joyce on this tree, but she would be in the same generation as my father. So Joyce is 5th cousin once removed to Laura and Robin.
Joyce and Shaz
All the ThruLines seem to be working out so far:
Interestingly, shaz shows to be descended from Mary who Nancy Hartley Lee had when she was almost 47 years old. Shaz’ tree stops at James Wilkinson:
If I can show that James Wilkinson was the son of Mary Lee, that may be good enough. It turns out that Mary is in the tree of my genealogy friend, Elaine:
Elaine has saved me some time in connecting Mary Lee to James Wilkinson. This connection is good enough for me:
Here the tree is getting wider, reflecting the large family that Nancy Hartley Lee had.
Summary and Conclusions
- My father’s first cousin Joyce showed three ThruLines from the Nancy Hartley Line. These all appear to check out.
- Evidence is mounting that we have many connections to Nancy Lee who appears to be Nancy Hartley and the daughter of John Hartley and Anne Bracewell.
- I previously had not documented these Nancy Hartley descendants and now show 6 DNA matches between myself and my father’s cousin Joyce.
- I will continue working on Hartley/Bracewell Thrulines in subsequent Blogs.